PAGE THK1SJS
Late News
Continued Warm.
Today'* North Carolina Weather
leport; Fair and continued warm
onlght and Thursday except for
scattered showers Thursday after
noon in extreme southwest portion.
Free Convicts*
Raleigh, July 1.—Three hundred j
and three convicts serving original j
wntences of less than 60 days will j
{o free today on parole. The men 1
ire serving terms in county convict t
amps which today will he taken
»ver by the state highway commis
lion. The new law prohibits the im
prisonment of prisoners serving less
than 60 days in these camps. Gull
ord leads with 127 “short termers," |
Cleveland county has one.
Much Canning
Rural Sections
5eai», Peas, Peaches, Cherries Be
ing Canned In large Quan
tities Now*
Times may be hard and a big por
ion o£ Cleveland county may live
out of cans this winter, but the
!ood in the cans w£l be Cleveland
:ounty food.
The serious manner in which ru
al Cleveland count, has entered
nto the live-at-home program is
letter shown in no phase than in
he amount o£ food being canned
ver the county ncr
The grain and ether major feed
ma food crops in the county are
arger than ever before, but the
treat increase in vegetables and fruit
trops is the most remarkable fea
ure of the movement. V
Ms. Irma P. Wa'dace, home dj
nore vegetables ana fruits are being
ianned so far this season in the
tounty than ever before
"They are canning beans and
herries by the bushels I've never
een anything to equal it," she said,
ind they are canning peaches and
ither fruits, too. More English peas
,re being put, up for winter use than
a the hisory or the county. The
iain canning season is not on yet
nd those not in touch with the ru
il sections can have no idea of the
mmense amount r! food this coun
y has produced, $ big percentage of
rhich will be canned for winter use.”
Mrs. Wallace recently returned
rom a motor trirf through many
(•unties in the Eastern section of
he state and nowhere, she says, did
he see gardens to compare wtth
hese in this county. This report is
ome out by statements made by
isitors, all of whem have comment
d upon the many fine gardens seen
n the county.
It took some tune for Cleveland
ounty to get soid on the live-at
.onie idea, but there isn’t any
oubt but what it has gone over in
big way this year. Farm wives
nth their gardens and canning are
Hatching every move of their h Ug
anda in producing and preserving
he necessary food and fe?d for their
wn consumption
Being Done In
By the Bushel.
Vlrs. J. G. Pope Is
Buried On Tuesday
Me* At Horae of Her Son-In-Law
Joe Humphries At Age 74
Year*.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth. Callahan
'ope, widofr of J, G. Pope, died
londay at the home of her son-iri
tw Mr. Joe Humjbrtjte near Lat
imore at the ago tjf 74 years and
tx days. She was married to Mr.
ope Jn 1879 and he preceded her
i the grave one year ago. To this
nlon were born tour children, three
whom are living, Mrs. Oscar
oode, Mrs. Joe Humphries, Mrs.
ma Brooks. The other daughter
ary Bessie, ditd at the age of
ree years. Besides the three chii
en, fifteen grandchildren and ten
reat grandchildren survive, to
rther with the following brothers:
Ifred, Logan and Charlie Callahan
ne sister preceded her to the grave
Mrs. Pope joined the Methodist
lurch at the age of 16 years and
iter moved her membership with
er children to Beaver Dam Bapf
st church where the funeral took
lace Tuesday afternoon services be
lg conducted by Rev. D, F. Put
im.
>resbyterian Men
To Meet This Eve
The July mee'mg of the men of
se 3 \elhy Pre-bvterlan church will
i held this evening at 7:45 o'clock,
urlng this mor.:h the whole South
•n Presbyterian church will give
oecial attention to the study of re
gious education The program at
le local church tonight will be on
le subject of adult education. The
leeting will be under the leader
dip of Mr. H»■'>•«? S. White who
as selected of -"' men to assist'Mas
5 presenting *"* program. All the
ten of the church are urged to st
tnd. Others interested are invited
share the benefits of the meeting.
State Takes Over County Roads, Convicts Today; Engineer Her
l
Population
In County
Negro Increase Tops
Entire State
Advance of County in Cotton
Brought In Many Negroes In
10 Years.
From 1920 to 1930 the total pop
ulation increase In Cleveland coun
ty was surpassed by only five coun
ties in North Carolina. These coun
ties were Guilford, Durham, Meck
lenburg, Buncombe and Gaston.
In the same period the increase
in negro population in this county
led the entire state, the percentage
gain from 1920 to 1930 being 100.3
percent.
The gain In white population
alone in the county was 45.6 per
cent and was surpassed by only
seven of the 100 counties in the
state. The total population increase
in the county during the decade
was 51.5.
In 1930 the county had a total
population of 51,914. Of that total
39.812 were white and 12,067 color
ed
Other Counties
Catawba county's total popula
tion increase was 30 percent. The
white increase was 28.6 percent and
the negro 38 2. Rutherford's total
gain was 28.7, the white gain 30 per
cent and the negro 20.5. Lincoln's’
total gain was 28 percent, 25.1
white and 48.8 negro.
How Explained.
In assembling the figures on tile
population increase by counties and'
by races, The University News Let-1
ter offers the following explanation:!
"Cleveland county experienced the
largest increase of negroes of any
county in the state, with a gain of
slightly above one hundred percent.
Incidentally, during the last decade
Cleveland grew from an average cot
ton county to the leading cotton
county of the state. These two de
velopments are related. Large num
bers of negroes moved into Cleve
land, many of them coming from
Georgia and South Carolina.
“Other counties that experienced
large percent gains in negroes are
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Dr. Kendall Made
Surgeon For Fleet
Of 5 Big Steamers
Son of Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Kendall
Holds High Position. Will
Study Abroad.
Dr. B. H. Kendall, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bloom H. Kendall of Shelby
has been honored with a very high
position as chief surgeon over a
fleet of five modern sister ships
which enter trans-Atlantic mail and
passenger service on July 2nd. Dr.
Kendall was first graduated from
the University of North Carolina,
finished his medical course at the
University of Maryland, served his
internesirip in the University of
Maryland hospital and has been
chief resident physician of this
hospital until this week when he
takes up his duties with the Balti
more Mail Steamship company.
Chief Over Five Ships.
After Dr. Kendall was accorded
the honor of being appointed as
chief surgeon for the steamship
line with five new sturdy ocean
liners, each 506 feet long and of
15,000 tons displacement, he was
authorized to spend $50,000 of the
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Increase
6th In N. C.
Showers Relieve
Heat; Many Dead
Over The Country
Mercury Climbing For New Record
Here Today. Death Toll
Of 600.
Showers Monday and Tuesday
brought some relief to this sec
tion from the extended heat
wave, but today the mercury was
climbing early In the morning
and promised, if it kept climbing,
to reach a new high during
the day.
Monday afternoon local thermo
meters registered 99 1-2, almost up
to the June 21 high of the year,
but a rain in the afternoon in Shel
by and over the county cooled down
the torried atmosphere. An early
morning rain yesterday kept the
temperature down to 94 and another
heavy shower early last night gave
additional relief. This morning,
however, the mercury was standing
at 90 in the Ebeltoft thermometer
at 8:30 o’clock and was continuing
to climb.
Death Toll.
New York, July 1.—All America,
except the far west and the New
England seaboard, suffered yester
day from sizzling temperatures as
the sweltering spell Invaded eastern
states, the toll of deaths attribut
able to heat neared 600. Relief by
Thursday was held out for only the
northwest. Elsewhere there were
only vague hopes.
The weather man ran the gaunt
let from snow flurries in Glacier
park, Montana, to temperature of
near 110 in the south.
Virginia, the Carolina, Oeorgia,
northern Mississippi and Louisiana
had no relief and none was pre
dicted for Wednesday. Tempera
tures ranged from 90 upwards,
reaching 108 In Monticello, Ga
New Lawyer For
Kings Mountain
Joe Wright. Graduate Of University
Of North Carolina And Native
Of County.
Mr. Joe M. Wright, son of Mr.
Charlie Wright of the Earl section
of this county, has recently opened
‘a law office in Kings Mountain.
Mr. Wright received the A. B. de
gree at the University of North Car
olina in 1927. After teaching school
for a year, he entered the University
of North Carolina law school, and
during the last three years has tak
en and finished the law course offer
ed there.
On August 18. last year, Mr.
Wright took and passed the bar ex
amination given by the Supreme
court of North Carolina, which
qualifies him to practice law in this
state.
Before Judge T. B. Finley upon
the recommendation of C. C, Frazer,
Esq., leading member of the Greens
boro bar, on June 22, 1931, Mr.
Wright took the oath of office,
which completed the requirements
for the practice of law in the state
of North Carolina.
SPORT NEWS ON
PAGES 3 and 8
Bus Taken Off, No Eastbound Mail
From Shelby After 6:16 In Evening
Postmaster Quinn Hopes For Ad
justment Of Sendee Here
Soon.
As the result of the removal
of the 9:40 p. m. eastbound
Shelby-Gastonla bus yesterday,
Shelby has no outgoing mall
sendee to the east and south
from 6:16 in the evening until
6:35 the following morning.
Postmaster J. H. Quinn stated
today that he was informed yes
terday that beginning July 1,
today .the bus One would dis
continue the operation of the
9.10 bus front Shelby to Oas
i ton!*- This change will nrote as
inconvenience to Shelby busi
ness houses which used the 9:10
bus to get off their late even
in* mail for the south and east.
As a result of the change Post
master Quinn urges local pa
trons to get their mail to the
office early enough to catch the
4:35 bus in the afternoon, the
eastbound Seaboard at 5, or the
southbound Southern train at
6:16. After the Southern train
leaves at 6:16 there will be no
other outgoing mail until the
down Southern at 6:35 in the
morning.
No reason was assigned for the
removal of the 9:40 bus, but
postal authorities here base tak
en the matter up with highsr
authorities and hope within *
few days to arrange a more con
venient outgoing evening o r
night mail.
Bond Of $5,000
For Negro Who
Shot WhiteMen
Wife Placed Under
$500 Bond
Charge Changed To Secret Assault!
By Judge Weather* In Pre
liminary Hearing.
In a preliminary hearing in coun
ty court here yesterday Morris
Williamson, young negro, was bound
to Superior court under a *5,000
bond for the alleged shooting
Thursday of last week of Hatcher
Glover and his father. Martin Glov
er.
Williamson's wife, Tishia, was
placed under a *500 bond for aid
ing and abetting. The woman was
already under a bond for that
amount but Williamson has not se
cured bond.
Williamson, according to the evi
dence, approached the Glovers
while they were plowing In a field
on the Thede Lutz place last Thurs-'
day afternoon Hatcher Glover said
he had been employed by Mr. Lutz
to work the crop put out by Wil
liamson, and his father was helping
him. The negro, it appeared, resent
ed the intrusion. While the Glovers
were plowing Williamson shot the
elder Glover in the side end back.
Glover declaring that he did not
see Williamson Just as he shot.
When this evidence came out Judge
Maurice Weathers changed the
charge to read "secret assault with
intent to kill, doing serious bodily
harm." After he saw his father
shot down, Hatcher Glover testified
that he called his mother in a near
by field. told her to go to his fath
er'who was shot, and then started
for the house to get a gun. William
son, he said, headed him off. When
he saw that Williamson was going
to shoot Glover says he jumped
over a ditch and started to fall flat
on the ground, Just as he started
down the load of shot struck him in
the back.
Just before the shooting started,
the Glovers testified, that William
son's wife tol.» her husband to “go
blow theij £eads off.’’
The elder Glover was able to
leave the hospital after receiving
] tretment Thursday afternoon, but
Hatcher remained in the hospital
for three days.
Judge B. T. Palls represented the
defendant and Solicitor W. S. Beam
handled the prosecution for the
State.
!
Tax Complaints To
Be Heard July 13th |
County Commissioners Will Sit As1
Equalizing Board Second Mon
day in July.
The board of county commission*
ers will sit as a tax equalizing
board on the second Monday in
July at which time taxpayers will
be heard of complaints of over or
under valuation of real and personal
property for this year's listing. There
was no re-valuation of real estate
in Cleveland county, the legislature
having provided that the quadren
nial re-.valuation due this year could
be postponed in th ediscretion of the
commissioners. The commissioners
saw fit to continue values as set
four years ago as to real estate, but
any in-equalities may be adjusted
by filing such complaint with the
commissioners when they sit as an
equalizing board the second Mon
day in July. If values remain as
they are, there will be a tax reduc
tion of around forty cents on the
$100 on real estate, but if values are
lowered to any great extent, itJwill
be impossible to lower the rate as
much as is anticipated.
The commissioners of each coun
ty are required to act as an equal
izing board and it Is though that in
view of the reduced tax rate, there
will be no complaints as to values,
except in a few minor cases where
gross Inequalities exist.
Brackett Refused
Award In Hearing
The Star is informed by its Ra
leigh news bureau that W. S. Brack
ett, employe, was refused compensa
tion in his workmen's compensation
case against the Cleveland Mill &
Power company and the American
Mutual Insurance Company. The
decision was banded down yesterday
by Matt H. Allen, chairman of the
N. C. Industrial Commission. Brack
ett sought compensation damages
for stiff joints in a finger. ,
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Here's the route 'round the world taken by the
record-smashing aerial globe-trotter*, Wiley Port
and Harold Gatty, in their sensational flight from
to Europe, across hazardous Asia
and Siberia into Alaska and thence across the
1 Canadian northwest and United States baeic to
New York. The remarkable time in which Gatty
and Post made the swing around the globe not
only broke the Graf Zeppelin record, but chopped
it just about in half. AH hail to the boy*!
Cupid Weakens,
County Has 7
“June Brides”
Our to the business depres
iton, the (inline weather or
somethin*. Don Cupid hod o
poor month in June In these
ports, and ordinarily June is
supposed to be Don's premier
month.
The records in the office of
A. F. Newton, register of
deeds, show that only seven
couples received marriage li
censes in Cleveland county
during June.
AU seven "June brides" were
white.
School Board To
Sell $26,000 In
Bonds July 14
Proreeds From Sale Will Be Used
To Wipe Oat Floating
Indebtedness.
A bond issue of $26,000 was au
thorized by the city school board
around May 1 of this year, it was
learned today when notice of the
sale of these bonds was received
from Raleigh from the local gov
ernment commission under whose
direction all bonds and notes are
sold. The $26,000 bond Issue Is for
Shelby special charter school dis
trict No. 33 embracing the city of
Shelby and a small portion of ad
jacent territory.
Bids on tl^ese bonds will be re
ceived In Raleigh by the local gov
ernment commission on July 14th,
at 10 o’clock, will be dated May 1,
1931 and mature May 1, $2,000 in
the year 1934 and $3,000 in each of
the years 1935 to 1942 in denom
ination of $1,000 each. They must
not bear over six per cent interest
and the right to reject all bids is
reserved. It is understood the entire
cost of the sale on the legal opinion,
preparation and printing of bonds
will be around $500.
Abou two years ago there was an
accumulated deficit of $87,000 in the
school bond. In July, 1929, a bond
issue of $58,000 was voted to reduce
this indebtedness and since then
there has been saved enough out of
the current fund to further reduce
this floating debt, leaving about
$26,000 unpaid. The purpose of this
bond sale in Raleigh, on July 14th,
is to wipe out this floating debt en
tirely.
PILOT OFFICES CLOSE
THURSDAY WHILE HOT
C, R Webb, general agent for the
Pilot life Insurance Co., announced
that his offioe will be closed on
Thursday afternoons during July
and August so that the office force
can have some recreation during the
summer months.
Booze Cases Furnished Over One
Half Of County Court Work For
Month Of June; Many ‘Bum’ Checks
Eighty-Four Of 148 Cams Tried Cen
tered About Whiskey
Charges.
Almost 60 percent of the 148
rases tried in county record
er's court here during the month
of June were liquor cases in one
form or another.
A summary of the county court
locket for the month, made by
Deputy Clerk Charlie Woodson,
'hows that 84 of the cases tried
jpere liquor cases. They were divid
ed as follows: violation of prohibi
tion law 42, public drunkenness 33,
receiving and possessing 1, trans
porting 1, drunk and disorderly 4,
Irlving drunk 3.
The court upheld its record of
convicting a top heavy percentage
if those brought before it, around
130 of the 148 defendants being con
victed with less than a score being
treed.
Worthless check cases, totalling 23,
ranked next to whiskey cases. As
saults, seven in all, came third, and
breaking and entering with four
cases ranked fourth.
The cases tried as dassfied by
charges follow:
Violating prohibition law 42, pub
lic drunks 33, driving drunk 3 drunk
and disorderly 4, receiving and pos
sessing one, transporting one,
gambling 3, turning over car 6, for
cible trespass 1, worthless checks 23,
sci-fa 1, breaking and entering 4,
assault with deadly weapon 3, as
sault seven, larceny 2, operating car
without proper license 1, secret as
sault 1, reckless driving 3, f & a 2,
carrying concealed weapon 1, pro
fanity and trespassing 2, entering
and stealing 1, destroying property
1, secret assault with intent to kill
1, aiding and abetting in shooting 1.
No Formal Move
About Court Costs
Much Talk About County Court
CooU. ‘Ter Diem'* Fee
Illegal?
SEE EDITORIAL ON COURT
COSTS, PAQE 4.
There has been wide discus
sion in Shelby and over the
county about the report that
some investigation might be
made to determine if costs in
the county recorder’s court are
too high, but so far as The Star
could learn today no formal
move has been made In the mat
ter.
Attorneys discussing the rase
unofficially express the opinion
that the "per diem” fee of $2 Is
Is not In compliance with the
law and that some of the other
items may not be properly fill
ed out at times. No formal state
ment to this effect, however,
has been issued in the court.
First Elimination Game.
The American Legion Junior lea
gue baseball team of Shelby has been
called to Gastonia Friday afternoon
at 3:30 o’clock for the first elimina
tion game in the series. Dr. B. M.
Jarrett says he vfill take his team
down Friday and wants all friends
and supporters .especially members
of the American legion to attend.
Shelby won over the Gastonia Junior
legion team by a score of 4 to 3 re
cently, but that was before the
elimination series started.
CannonToFight “Any Wet” Nominee
In 1932 Camgaign, Says In Charlotte
Still a Democrat, He Contends, But
a Dry One. Koosevelt Is
Talked.
Charlotte, July 1.—Bishop James
Cannon, Jr., is “irrevocably” oppos
ed to the nomination of any wet
I candidate for the presidency and is
still as avowedly anti-Smith, anti
Tammany as he was in 1028 when
he was one of the principal leaders
in the anti-Smith movement with
in the Democratic party, he de
clared here this week
“I am a Democrat I am net' a
Republican But 1 am an anti
Smith Democrat. X am against any
wet. Yes, I’m a Democrat, but I'm
against Smith. Raskob, Tammany
and any of that crowd," said the
bishop. “You might say I am ’ir
revocably’ opposed to any wet.”
The bishop, one of the most pub
licized men in America, came here
from Durham in company with his
son, James Cannon, III, a member
of the Duke university faculty, to
confer with Jake F. Newell, Char
lotte lawyer, on some sort of legal
business, the nature of which
neither he nor Mr. Newell revealed.
In emphasizing his statement that
he is a dry and will continue to re
main dry regardless of the action of
his party leaders in the nest Demo
cratic convention, Bishop Cannon
declared that his stand for prohibi
tion will in no way be influenced by
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Broadway Is
Road Engineer
For This County
In Charge Of All
County Roads
Shelby Engineer Given Poet. Has
Complete Charge. Keep Camp
Here.
Mr W. A Broadway, Shelby real
estate man but for years a road
construction engineer in this and
other counties, yesterday ifras noti
fied that he would be road engineer
lor Cleveland county under the new
highway set-up. and today he took
charge of all highway affairs, main
tenance and upkeep in the county.
District Engineer J. A. Poteat, of
Marlon, district headquarters, made
a trip here yesterday to confer with
Mr. Broadway and to notify him or
hts appointment, The two engineers
spent a portion of the day check
ing over the highway equipment of
the • 11 township road commission#
preparatory to taking over all coun
ty roads by the State today.
New Method.
mis morning an oounty and
township highways In North Caro
lina were taken over by the State
under the new highway system ad
vocated by Governor Gardner and
passed by the last legislature. All
roads within the State will now be
maintained by the State, working
county convict forces which were
also taken over. As a result there
will be no county or township road
tax for maintenance purposes after
today.
To Have Assistant.
Engineer Poteat informed Mr.
Broadway that he will have com
plete charge of the highway work
in this county, working under the
district office at Marlon. Division
headquarters for the five districts
in the western section of the state
are at Asheville with Engineer
Walker In charge. "The roads of
this county" It Is understood En
gineer Poteat told Mr. Broadway,
“are now In your hands. It is up to
you to secure your aid and to hire
and fire as you see fit." It Is under
stood that Mr. Broadway will have
an assistant under him In direct
ing the engineering, maintenance
and construction work In the coun
ty. Just how many foremen, guards,
etc., will be used has not been defi
nitely determined as yet.
Maybe 10 Districts.
It is reported that the road work
of the county will be divided into
10 districts with the chain gang
force doing a major portion of the
labor. Whether or not the county
highways will be so divided Is not
definitely known. By Friday Mr.
Broadway may be In position to
know how the work will be handled,
who will be employed under him,
and other matters of Interest In
connection with the new road sys
tem.
AH convicts on the force here
serving 30-day sentences or term*
that will expire this month are
scheduled to be paroled today as the
State will not work convicts serv
ing terms less than 60 days. Here
after convicts worked in the State
camps will have to have sentences
of 61 days or more.
To Keep Camp.
It Is unofficially reported that a
standard State convict camp will be
maintained near Shelby In the
quarters of the No. 6 chain gang
which were turned over to the State
by the No. 6 commissioners.
A total of 793.95 miles of Cleve
land county roadway was takta over
by the State today and that added
to the 113.65 miles of State highway^
places the total mileage of roads In
the county to be maintained by the
State at 907.60 miles.
, Western Union To
Sell Money Orders
To meet the constant demand of
Shelby residents for a money order
to be mailed or sent by methods
other than' telegraph, local Western
Union offices will begin the sale to
day of American Express money
orders, it is announced by R. E.
Blackwelder, local manager.
Western Union main and branch
offices in all parts of the United
States will inaugurate the service
at the same time. Offices of the
American Express company will act
as branches of Western Union in
the sale of telegrams, cablegram^
and telegraphic money orders. This
service will, in no way conflict, with
Western Union telegraphic money
and gift order service, which an
nually transfer *375,000,000 ip small
amounts.